Have fun turning cake and frosting-filled push-up pops into ketchup and mustard. These clever-looking desserts are perfect for a picnic or backyard party.
Ketchup and Mustard Push-Up Pops
Makes 24
Ingredients:
1 Betty Crocker Lemon, White or Yellow Cake Mix (15.25 oz / 432g)*
1 cup water
½ cup vegetable oil
3 eggs
yellow and red food coloring
non-stick baking spray
about 4 cups vanilla frosting (store-bought or homemade)
1 batch of modeling chocolate, recipe here
*The ingredients listed are for the Betty Crocker Mix. You can use any cake you choose, just adjust the ingredients accordingly. One cake mix will make about 85-88 mini cakes. You will only need 72 cakes to make 24 push-up pops, so you can enjoy a little snack while you are working.
Supplies:
Wilton Mini Whoopie Pie Pan(s)
24 Wilton Treat Pops (Push-Up Pop) containers
disposable pastry bags
1 ½ inch round cookie cutter
rolling pin
toothpick or skewer
yellow and red paper
double stick tape or glue stick
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Beat cake mix, water, oil, and eggs together in a large mixing bowl on low speed for 30 seconds.
- Increase speed to medium and continue to beat for 2 minutes.
- Divide the batter in half. Color half with yellow coloring and the other with red.
- Spray a mini whoopie pie pan with cooking spray.
- Spoon 1 tablespoon of batter into each whoopie pie cavity.
- Bake for 9-11 minutes or until the tops of the cakes spring back when touched.
- Cool in pan for 5 minutes.
- Then remove the cakes and cool them completely on a cooling rack.
- If using only one pan, wash after each use and spray with cooking spray before making your next batch of cakes.
I love the Wilton Treat Pops containers because you can use the lid as a stand. Once filled the push-up pops stand up all on their own. So, put the pops into the lids and stand them up in order to fill them.
- Color half of your frosting with yellow coloring and the other half with red.
- Put frosting in pastry bags and snip off the end.
- Fill 12 push-up pop containers with red cakes and frosting and 12 with yellow cakes and frosting.
- Insert one mini cake in a push-pop container.
- Pipe on about a tablespoon of frosting.
- Add another cake, then more frosting, and a third cake, and more frosting.
- Fill the containers all the way up to the top.
- Use a knife or spatula to scrape across the top of each container leveling out the frosting.
- Color half of your modeling chocolate with red coloring and half with yellow.
- Roll it out to about ⅜ inch thickness.
- Cut 12 circles of each color using a 1 ½-inch round cutter.
To make my circles look like the bottom part of the lid, I took an actual squeeze bottle lid and rolled it around the edge of the modeling chocolate, imprinting the grooves around it. If you don't have a lid just make the lines using the back of a knife or a toothpick.
To create the spout:
- Pinch off about a teaspoonful of modeling chocolate.
- Roll it into a ball then shape it into a cone.
- Push a skewer or toothpick into the pointed end of the cone creating the opening of the bottle.
- Remove the toothpick by twisting it as you pull it out.
- Lightly brush water on the flat end of the cone and press it onto a modeling chocolate round.
- Repeat creating a total of 12 red and 12 yellow lids.
- Gently press one modeling chocolate lid into the frosting of each push-up pop.
- Cut pieces of yellow and red paper to 6 ½ inches by 3 ¼ inches.
- Wrap paper around coordinating push-up pops.
- Secure with double-stick tape.
You can make these up to two days before your party. I would recommend you fill the push-up pop containers with cake and frosting, then store them in an airtight container.
The day of your picnic top them with the modeling chocolate lids.
Remember, your lids are actually made of white chocolate, so you'll need to keep these in a shady spot at your outdoor event.
The "hamburgers" that are pictured above, are actually ice cream sandwiches. You can find the recipe and tutorial for my Chilly Cheeseburgers at Tablespoon.com.
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jbateman
So cute! Love these push pops as well as your new design! I think everything you post is so talented! Thanks for being you and doing what you do!
jbateman
So cute! Love these push pops as well as your new design! I just think everything you post is very talented stuff! Thanks for being you and doing what you do so well!
Mike @ Semi Sweet
I love this idea!! I have to get some push pop containers to try for myself!
Jennifer OConnor
I would like to win the treat pops kit since they are really cool and remind me of childhood. My children would love them.
Jennifer OConnor
I definitely would make these push up pops at my next picnic party. They are really cool. You are so creative.
Chriss
I'd love to win the gift card to resaurantware
K&E'sMama
I would love to win the Wilton kit, would be perfect for my son's birthday pool party in August - we are having a cookout!
But, would love to win any of the prizes listed!
Lisa@hooplapalooza
oh my goodness Beth! i keep telling my hubby i hate mustard as he keeps offering it to me when he grills burgers but these? i'll take all 12 please with of course the ketchup! LOVE these to death! :>D sooooo flippin' clever! and i'm so glad you cohosted this picnic! 🙂
Jo and Sue
Aaaaaah! So cute! I can't enter to win that lovely giveaway but I did want to let you know how adorable those push up pops are.
One of these days I have to order some of the push pop containers to try!
Great job! 🙂
beth
Thanks! Oh, you must get some push pop containers. They are so fun to use.
Paula
Seriously cute and creative. From the hamburgers to the mustard and ketchup!
beth
Thank you, Paula.
Chriss
We always grill a ton when we have picnic parties.
Hayley @ The Domestic Rebel
These are incredible, Beth!! How genius and adorable. I'm obsessing!
beth
Thanks, Haley.
mlaiuppa
Thanks but I guess I'm out of luck. I was hoping your rafflecopterthing would allow me to enter but you *still* have to have a Facebook account and I refuse to join Facebook due to their privacy (or I should say lack of privacy) policies.
So without a Facebook account, I can't enter. Not even using your rafflecopterthingie.
Too bad I can't enter just by leaving a blog comment.
Pity.
beth
Hi,
You can actually have two entries into the giveaway simply by answering some questions. If you scroll down the Rafflecopter Box, you'll find two entry boxes that say "Leave a Comment." Click on the first box, and see the question. Click the "I commented" box. Then go down to the comments section on my blog post and type in the answer the question. Then go back to the Rafflecopter and click on the second "Leave a Comment" box and do the same.
Good luck!
lizy b
Oh I just love this so very much!!! I'd love to see my kids faces when I told them dessert was mustard and ketchup!
beth
These could be funny for April Fools. I served them to kids and they were amazed when I told them they could eat them.
Diane {Created by Diane}
So FUN! I just love these...very creative and YES I really want these at my next picnic!
beth
Thanks, Diane!
Sue
The cutest push pops ever...honestly! Thanks for putting on such a FUN picnic!
beth
That's so nice! It was nice to be a co-host for this event.
Jennifer @ Not Your Momma's Cookie
Awesomely cute, Beth! Thanks so much for co-hosting this awesome party! 🙂
beth
Thanks, Jennifer. I'm so glad you joined the party.
Pint Sized Baker
I love these! great minds "almost" think alike... Lol 🙂
beth
I haven't made too many push-up pops but do love them!
Vanessa
Those push pots are awesome! Very creative!
beth
Thanks, Vanessa.
The Partiologist
Waaay cute Beth - they are perfect for a picnic - and they look just like the real thing!!
beth
The kids who ate these got a huge kick out of just how real they looked.